Somali piracy hijacked small oil tanker towards Mogadishu on Wednesday evening at Coast of Somalia.
The ship, Honour 25, was overrun late on Wednesday by six gunmen, when it was approximately 30 nautical miles offshore, the officials said
Under the control of the pirates, the vessel, carrying 17 crew – 10 Pakistanis, four Indonesians, one Indian, one Sri Lankan and one from Myanmar, has anchored close to the Somali shore between the fishing towns of Xaafun and Bander Beyla.
For the past three years piracy activities declined but recently there are uproar.
Somali authorities or EU Naval forces aren’t comment the incident.
